Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
In theory, wouldn’t people buying weed now buy less alcohol? Otherwise, they’d be high a bigger portion of a given day and not someone I’d like to be around, especially on the road. If my theory is correct, IL pols over-estimated the net revenue increase the state will get in taxes. That’s a common phenomenon in IL.
Now that people are circulating their legal weed receipts across social media, everyone’s commenting on the outrageous selling price of legal pot and the outrageous taxes charged on legal pot.